Archive | November, 2008

Have you ever found yourself fumbling around on your computer for a calendar? Are you opening up Outlook or Google Calendar (or some other calendaring program) to see on what day the 23rd falls? No need to go to those extremes for a simple date look up. Now you can turn any background or image into desktop wallpaper with an added month calendar.

Do you or someone you know have trouble using a computer because of the difficulty in distinguishing between different colors?

Scientists are not sure but it is believed that anywhere between 8% – 12% of the population is color blind. Computer programs use lots of colors to represent different panels, boxes, menus, and data which can make use of a computer difficult for the color blind.

For some time now I have stopped carrying around a USB thumb drive or portable hard drive. I used to use them to transfer files between my computers – both Mac’s and PCs. I started using a couple of free services to sync my files between multiple PCs and/or Mac’s.

Have you ever found a USB stick in the lobby of a hotel? Perhaps there are two or three in a pile or on a display that asks you to “take one”. Maybe you work at a company and someone has dropped of a pamphlet or flier for a product and left a USB thumb drive behind with “literature” about the product.

It now appears as though the widely adopted wireless connection protocol of WPA is no longer secure. Researchers have found a way to compromise the wireless security protocol of WPA in a matter of a few minutes. The protocol has been adopted by a number of organizations and companies, which could be forced to change their wireless implementations. The news comes from to us from PC World.

Hackers and phishers are taking advantage of your need for election news by using President-elect Barack Obama’s name to get you to click on links and run programs that will infect your machine with malware.